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Brian Rotman

Brian Rotman

Brian Rotman

Contact Information

Professor Emeritus

Email
Email Brian Rotman rotman.3@osu.edu
Office
468 Hagerty Hall, 1775 S. College Road Columbus, OH 43210
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Areas of Expertise

  • Semiotics
  • Cultural studies of mathematics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of London

Brian Rotman is interested in cultural studies of mathematics, particularly in how signs (linguistic, pictorial, symbolic, gestural) achieve their discursive effects and how mathematical inscriptional practices facilitate and alter human consciousness.

He is the author of several books, including Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero (UK: Macmillan, 1987; 1993), Ad Infinitum...the Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In (Stanford University Press, 1998), and Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting (Stanford University Press, 2000).